Choose the correct answers.
A sentence is usually defined as having ...
- a subject and a finite verb.
- a subject and an object
- a noun and a verb
- a subject and non-finite verb
This is my house. is ...
- a simple sentence
- a compound sentence
- a complex sentence
- a compound-complex sentence
This is my house and you are leaving it now. is ...
- a simple sentence
- a compound sentence
- a complex sentence
- a compound-complex sentence
This is my house but you are leaving it now. is ...
- a simple sentence
- a compound sentence
- a complex sentence
- a compound-complex sentence
This is my house although you are leaving it now and you are never coming back. is ...
- a simple sentence
- a compound sentence
- a complex sentence
- a compound-complex sentence
Would you close the door, please? is ...
- an interrogative form with an imperative function
- an imperative form with an
interrogative function
- a statement functioning as an imperative
- a question form functioning as an interrogative
You drove home after drinking so much, did you? (with the emphasis on 'drove' and falling intonation at the end) is ...
- a positive statement with a positive tag usually functioning as a criticism
- a positive statement with a positive tag usually functioning as an interrogative
- a positive statement with a negative tag usually functioning as a criticism
- a statement with a positive tag usually functioning as an imperative